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COMING NEW STATES.
AL b Territories Except Alaska to
Apply for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS S0od
For an Increase In Uncle SANS
Family.
Washington. July 1s-Oorrespond-
Ace Press and D~akotslan-It is pretty
evident that the next congress will not
be able to keep the doors locked against
the territories. They have been knock
ing for o long time and some of them
came pretty lei getting the door open
last session. Now they are knocking
again nearly q half year before congress
begins Its session, and it Is pretty evil
dent that they are going to be heard this
time. Talks with members OF congress
who are here show a growing disposition
to listen to these demands and it is
pretty safe to say that the close OF the
50sh congress will find the list OF states
containing forty states, perhaps more.
The opportunities of some of the terri
tories have been SO long and we'll sus-
tanned that it does not seem that. con-
gress can hold out much longer. It is
a curious fact that congress during the
past twenty five years has had to be
begged and labored with just about 30
long before it will do anything in this
line. Colorado, the last state to be ad-
mitted, was struggling for that happy
lot twelve years before she got there.
The first enabling act was passed and
her first constitution adopted in '64, a
dozen years before she was finally adj
nitted by presidential proclamation,
Nebraska made application to congress
for an enabling act between two and
four years before she got fairly into the
fold in '67. Kansas held O
constitutional convention and knock
ed hard at the door in '55, but didn't
get in until 81. Prior to that time nc
state except Florida had to wait more
than three years from the beginning Of
the agitation until she was fairly in the
fold and in most cases the time spent in
getting in was but q few months. Bn'
now there are eight territories wanting
to come in as states, and some of then
have been asking that privilege nesrl.
or quite q decade.
Reports that the present administration
looks with favor upon the movement il
| Utah in regard to statehood, seem to b,
probably true. II would not be surpris
ing in fact if il should turn out that h,
had inspired it in some degree at least
II it could be saidof this administrator
that during its existence, and through
the efforts of Its leader, the greatest evl
since slavery, polygamy, Yves wiped on
and that by peaceful methods, 1t woult
be o record of which any party nigh
be prond. Nobody need be surprise,
if it turns out that the efforts in thi
line are supported by the administration
provided the new constitution offered b
the people of Utah proves to 'shol
water" and seems likely to etfectuall
wipe out poiygamy. True it woui
be a democratic state and the admins
tration by supporting it would lay itsel
open to the charge that it was sactuate
by partisan motives. But with repub
lican Dakota knocking SO hard at th
door, 1t seems that democratic Uta
would be fully Offset by republica
Dakota.
Then there is Washington t%erritor.
which is SO close POLITICAL
that nobody can tell wheths
it, wGnl3 become a democrat
or republican state. So if the ne1
congress finds itself compelled to yiel
tc the popular clamor in regard to til
admission Of territories, as it seems
must, 1t will find sufficient political IN
certainty among several OF the protestin
throng to make the result deliciousl
uncertain and thus give zest to the or
tire undertaking. II would not be
all surprising to see the next congress
: it's second session admitting four or fiy
| ar perhaps more than that, of the teri
tories. AS to the prospect of any Of the
getting in in time to vote at the ne,
presidential election, which comes on
i. a little over q year hence, it is not espec
ally brilliant.
1t is probable that bills will be intr'
duced for the admission as a state
every one of the remaining territorie
, excepting Alaska at the first session, b
as the second session would carry the
over beyond the next presidential ele
ton il is probable that they will
"stood off" for the final passage of t
y various acts until the closing session
q the congress which meets in Novemt
o next.
MARRIED.
el TRIPP-FELLOWS-In Sioux City, To-.
), noon of Tuesday, July 10. 1887, at the reaidel
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